murrain (muran)

and a. [Formerly also murren; For til moreyne mete with ous ich may hit wel a-vowe, Ne wot no wight, as ich wene what is ynowh to mene. Piers Plowman (C), xxi. 226, This plague of murre in continued twenty-eight yeare ere it ended, and was the first rot that euer was in England. Stow , Edw. I., an. 1257. Murrain take you, a murrain to or on you, etc., plague take you; plague upon you. A murrain on your monster! Shak ., Tempest, iii. 2. 88. II. a. Affected with murrain. The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrion flock. Shak ., M. N. D., ii. 1. 97. murrainlyt (mur'ān-li), adv . [Also murrenly ; murrain +-ly2.] Exce ively; plaguily. Davies . And ye 'ad bene there, cham sure you'ld murrenly ha wondred. Bp . Still , Gammer Gurton's Needle, iii. 2. murray (mur'ā), n. Same as moray. Murray a (mur'ā-ā), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1771), named after J. A. Murray, a Swedish botanist.] A genus of dicotyledonous trees of the polypetalous order Rutaceæ and the tribe Aurantieæ, known by its pinnate leaves, linear awl-shaped filaments, and imbricate petals. Four species are known, of tropical Asia and the islands as far as Australia, very small summer-flowering trees with dotted leaves, small oblong berries, and fragrant white flowers resembling orange-blo oms. M. exotica has been called Chinese box, and its large variety (sometimes regarded as a species, M. Sumatrana ) Sumatra orange. The species is valuable for its perfume, and yields a bitter extract, murray in. The seeds of M. Kænigii afford a fixed oil called simbolee -oil. See curry - leaf. Murray cod. See cod2. murray in, murrayine (mur'ā-in), n. [ IMG:content-1113.jpg:[graphic][merged small] murrelet (mėr'let), n. [